2010 Astana season

Astana
2010 season
Alberto Contador at the 2010 Tour de France team presentation.
UCI codeAST
StatusUCI ProTour team
World Ranking8th (768 points)[1]
ManagerYvon Sanquer
Main sponsor(s)Samruk-Kazyna
BasedKazakhstan
BicyclesSpecialized
GroupsetSRAM?
Season victories
One-day races2
Stage race overall4[N 1]
Stage race stages10
Grand Toursnone[N 2]
National Championships2
Most winsAlberto Contador (8 wins)[N 3]
Best ranked riderAlexander Vinokourov (11th)
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The 2010 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every ProTour event.

Astana's 2010 season marked a great transition for the team, as went from the leadership of Johan Bruyneel to Yvon Sanquer. The team similarly saw many notable riders depart, including Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Andreas Klöden, and the rest of Astana's squad from the 2009 Tour de France save champion Alberto Contador. Most of these riders were part of Armstrong's new team in 2010, Team RadioShack. Contador and Alexander Vinokourov, who returned from suspension late in the 2009 season, were the team's leaders in 2010.

  1. ^ "UCI Rankings". uci.org. Retrieved 13 March 2019.


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